On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 14:38, Kevin Anderson wrote: > On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 19:15, Daniel McNeil wrote: > > I had more time to test GFS. Reminder of the setup > > (note: I added more memory so the machines are up to 1GB). > > 3 machines each: > > 2 processor (800 MHZ Pentium 3) > > 1GB of memory > > 2 100Mb ethernet (1 public, 1 private) > > 1 2-port Qlogic FC host adapter > > 2 F/C sitches cascaded together > > 1 - 10 disk - dual controller FASTT200 (36GB 10,000rpm drives) > > Is this the latest cvs version of cman, dlm and gfs? > I have not updated my cvs for a couple of weeks. Are there updates that are important? > > > > The command run was 'time tar xf /Views/linux-2.6.8.1.tar; > > time sync' where /Views is an NFS mounted file system and > > the current working directory is in a clean file system on > > a 5-disk stripe 64k stripe width). For the 2 node case, > > I ran the command in separate directories on each node. > > For comparison, the ext3 file system in on a single scsi > > disk in data=ordered. > > Can you rerun the ext3 numbers to the same storage as GFS? Would also > be interesting to run from two nodes simultaneously to separate ext3 > filesystems on the storage as well? Doing dd's of the logical > partitions would also be interesting to see what bandwidth the storage > is capable of providing, first single node then simultaneous from both > nodes. > I am planning on getting to this and will send out more numbers when I have them. Does gfs support external logs? Seems like this would help isolate the log traffic. Thanks, Daniel
